Stud and button fastening



(ModeL) P. P. FL0URN0Y.

STUD AND BUTTON FASTENING.

No. 255,273. Patented Mar. 21,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PARKE P. FLOURNOY, OF BETHESDA, MARYLAND.

STUD AND- BUTTON FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,273, dated March 21, 1882. Application filed February',1882. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PARKE P. FLOURNOY, acitizen of the United States, and residing at Bethesda, in the county of Montgomery'and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Stud and Button Fastening, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in fastenin'gs by which studs or buttons are to be attached to shirt-bosoms or other garments furnished with eyelet-holes for the purpose.

The objects of the device are, first, to secure I ease in attaching the stud or button to the garment; second, to insure its steadiness and safety from danger of beinglost; third,to provide against that discomfort and inconvenience incident to the use of other stud-fastenings, arising from thefastening catching in the under-clothing or pricking the skin of the wearer. I attain these objects by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which v Figure 1 is a view of the fastening from the back of the button or stud. Fig. 2 is a view from the side of the stud or button, showing the position of the fastening when the stud or button is adjusted to the shirt-front or other garment; and Fig. 3 is also a view from the side of the stud or button,showingthe position of the parts of the fastening in the process of adjusting it to the garment.

Similar letters refer to similarpa: ts throughout the several views.

The wire of which the fastening is made, being permanently attached to the back of the button or stud at its center, isperpendicular to the back of the stud or button (forming the shank A) for a distance required bythe thickness of the garment, and then, bending at right angles to this shank, passes horizontally for a short distance to a point at or beyond theedge of the stud or button, forming the loop B. It is then brought back to the shank A, passing it between the baek of the stud or button and the angle a, and is sprung against the shank, so as to prevent accidental unfastening. Thence the remainder of the wire passes beyond the edge ot'the stud or button on the opposite side from the loopB, forming thetongue G, which is made straight to facilitate the removalof anyobstruction in the eyelet-hole and effect an easy entrance for the fastening. The wire, by its elasticity, after it has beensprung out in adjusting itto the garment, as seen in Fig. 3, returns to its position for holding on the stud or button, as seen in Fig. 2. The straight tongue 0, as there shown, lies close to the garment, and, together with the loop B, holds the stud or button firmly in its place.

I am aware that previous to my invention studs and buttons have been used with fasteniugs made ofa single wire, and I therefore do not lay claim to this, which is a feature common to many stud and button fast'enings; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture, an ornamental stud or button having the shank A permanently secured thereto and formed of a single piece of wire, bent at a, and having a return-bend at B, so that the parallel continuation 0 will be sprung against the bend ato prevent accidental unfastening, the whole constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described.

PAR KE P. FLOURNOY.

\Vitnesses:

E. H. BRADFORD, H. J. ENNIS. 

